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Sean Penn in Clint Eastwood's 'Mystic River,' which won Oscars for Penn and co-star Tim Robbins.

Oscar-winner ‘Mystic River’ on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/10/2021 Sean Axmaker

Clint Eastwood’s film of Dennis Lehane’s acclaimed novel is a dark, vivid tale of family, community, loyalty, and justice on the streets.

Ian McKellen stars as 'Mr. Holmes' in the film directed by Bill Condon.

Ian McKellan is ‘Mr. Holmes’ – free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, Hoopla, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/13/2020 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Behind a beak of a nose and a face dotted with liver spots, Ian McKellen doesn’t just look old in Mr. Holmes (2015). His 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes quavers with tremors, his face droops like melted wax, and at times the glint in his eyes glazes over like he’s momentarily checked out, dull and absent. As he […]

Paul Giamatti is John Adams in the HBO miniseries

‘John Adams’ and the birth of American democracy on Amazon Prime Video and HBO Now

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Election Special, miniseries, Streaming TV 07/03/2018 Sean Axmaker

One of the small moments of powerful insight offered in John Adams (2008), the superb HBO miniseries adapted from the biography by David McCullough and dramatized with a vivid sense of immediacy and historical texture, is the reminder that it wasn’t the election of George Washington that defined our democracy. It was the non-violent succession […]

Laura Linney and Jason Bateman star in the Netflix original series

What to stream: Jason Bateman in ‘Ozark’ on Netflix, ‘The Lost City of Z’ on SVOD

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel, Hulu, Netflix, Streaming TV, SVOD, thriller, What to Stream 07/21/2017 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Netflix launches a new original series: Ozark, a crime thriller that stars Jason Bateman as a crooked Chicago financial advisor who launders money for a Mexican drug cartel and has to […]

Laura Linney and Bill Murray in 'Hyde Park on Hudson,' directed by Roger Michell

Bill Murray is FDR in ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’ on Netflix

!Featured, Comedy, historical, Netflix, Streaming Movies 01/17/2016 Sean Axmaker

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) stars Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Laura Linney as his distant cousin Margaret “Daisy” Suckley, who is invited to the Roosevelt vacation manor to be a companion and confidante while the president hosts the King and Queen of England (Samuel West and Olivia Colman)—the first ever American visit […]